NAME : HIMANI TRIVEDI

STUDENT ID : 14ECUOS072

BRANCH : EC
 OUTLINE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. EVOLUTION OF HART

3. ARCHITECTURE OF WIRELESS HART NETWORK

4. LAYERED STRUCTURED OF HART COMMUNICATION

PROTOCOL

5. WIRELESS HART SLOT TIMING

6. SYSTEM TOOLS

7. PLANNING AND INSTALLATION

8. Conclusion and Future Trend

 WIRELESS HART
• Wireless HART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) technology provides
a robust wireless protocol for the full range of process measurement, control, and
asset management applications. The protocol utilizes time synchronized, self-
organizing, and self-healing mesh architecture.

•TheWirelessHartstandard is the first open wireless communication standard for

measurement and control in the process industries.

•Testing and field trials with wireless devices have demonstrated that the
communication accuracy, stability, total performance, and reliability can meet the
demands of industrial process monitoring and control applications.
 WIRELESS HART
• Wired networks such as Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, HARTare all well
established and continue to dominate in theindustry.

• WirelessHART includes a combination of device improvements, network

technology and network management.

• Network management is key to operation of wireless network. Used tomanage

the network resources efficiently, schedule communications to meet the
application requirements, establish routing to meet reliability andperformance
goals.

• Security, reliability, ease of use and battery life are some of the things takencare
by the network manager.

• WirelessHART devices can be line powered or Non-line powered(eg. batteries).

• Batteries are more efficient and flexible because of the on-offratio.

Evolution of HART
 The HART protocol has
evolved from a 4–20mA
based protocol to the
current wired and
wireless-based
technology
 Includes extensive
features supporting
security, unsolicited
communication of field
device parameters and
advanced diagnostics.
 Diagnostics now include
information about the
device and the
equipment that is being
monitored.
ISA 100.11A V/S WIRELESS HART

 ISA100.11a specifies the

interfaces between these
remote functions and the
field network.
 This flexible protocol
supports multiple protocols,
unlike WirelessHART, which
only supports HART
devices.. The network
provides reliable error
detection and channel-
hopping, TDMA and QOS
support, and high security.
 It only specifies tools for
constructing an interface.
Architecture of WirelessHART Mesh Networks
 The gateway is the interface
between the wireless
network and the plant
automation application host.
 The gateway contains the
network manager that
controls join, configuration,
maintenance and all other
network management
duties.
 The security manager
manages the keys used at
both the network layer and
the data link layer
 WirelessMesh
• WirelessMesh is the network topology for WirelessHARTtechnology.
Layered Structure of HART Communication Protocol
 In WirelessHART
networks, the
communication stack on
each device is organized
in a layered structure.
 Communications are
precisely scheduled using
an approach known as
Time Division Multiple
Access (TDMA).
 Scheduling is performed
by the network manager,
which uses overall
network routing
information in combination
with communication
requirements from
individual devices and
applications.
 WirelessHART Protocol
PHYSICAL LAYER

• The WirelessHART physical layer is based on the IEEE 802.15.4-2006 2.4

GHz DSSS physical layer, which includes 15 of 16 possible RF channels.
WirelessHART fully conforms to IEEE 802.15.4-2006.

DATA LINK LAYER

• The WirelessHART data link layer (DLL) is based on a fully compliant

IEEE 802.15.4-2006 MAC.

• To manage timeslots, the concept of a superframe is introduced that groups a

sequence of consecutive timeslots.

• All superframes in a WirelessHART network start from the ASN (absolute slot
number) 0, the time when the network is first created.
 WirelessHART Protocol(Contd..)

In WirelessHART, a transaction in a timeslot is described by a vector: {frame id,

index, type, source address, destination address, channel offset}

• frame id identifies the specificsuperframe

• index is the index of the slot in the superframe
• type indicates the type of the slot (transmit/receive/idle)
• source address and destination address are the addresses of the source
device and destination device
• channel offset provides the logical channel tobe used in the transaction.

NETWORK LAYER

• DLLmoves packets between devices, hop by hop, the network layer moves
packets end-to-end within the wireless network.

• Network layer security provides end-to-end data integrity and privacy across
the wireless network.
 WirelessHART Protocol(Contd..)

TRANSPORT LAYER:

• The WirelessHART transport layer provides a reliable, connectionless

transport service to the applicationlayer.
• When selected by the application layer interface, packets sent across the
network are acknowledged by the end device so that the originated device
can retransmit lost packets.

APPLICATION LAYER:

• The application layer is HART.Because of this, access to WirelessHART is

readily available by most host systems, handhelds, and asset management
systems.
WirelessHART Slot Timing
 All transactions
occur in slots
following specific
timing requirements,
and each 10 ms time
slot is further divided
into several sub time
intervals.
 This figure shows
one time slot and
provides an overview
of transaction timing
Start Slot Switch to Wait for Receive
Assessment Transmit Acknowledge Acknowledge

Listen Message Switch to

CCA 3 to 4 msec receive

10 msec - 1 time slot - 1 channel

1 device can transmit up to 8 PV’s plus status in 1 slot

Packet = 133 bytes

250kbit/s
WirelessHART Key Model
 Network devices implement
industry standard
encryption, authentication,
verification, anti-jamming
and key management.
 The Network management
Network (NWK) layer is
responsible for mesh
networking
 Two different scenarios are
shown: 1) a new network
device wants to join the
network and 2) an existing
network device is
communicating with the
network manager.
 Conventional Analog Wiring

Analog I/O

Device termination
System terminations
Multicore terminations
Multicore terminations

WirelessHART Network
Serial I/O

1 system connection
 WirelessHARTCommands
• Commands for network management, gateway communications
and other functionalities by the networkmanager.
Wireless Hart Commands
 System Tools
System Tools section talks about how the HARTdevices are connected to the
Host system.
• HARTpoint-to-point Interface

• HARTmultidrop interface

• Utilizing FTAwith legacy controlsystems

• Hosts with limitations on Datahandling

• Hosts with Pass-through messages

• Utilizing Device Configuration(DDL)

 WirelessHART Tools (Contd..)
Wi-HTest

Wi-Analysis
WirelessHART Sniffer
 A wireless “sniffer” may
be used to collect the
network traffic of a
Wireless HART network.
 A sniffer was use at the
Separation Research
Program (SRP) plant at
the J.J. Pickle Research
Campus of the University
of Texas, and the data
collected was used to
study the network.
 Planning And Installation

WirelessHART:
• WirelessHART network may be configured similarly to a wired HARTnetwork.

• The gateway is the remote I/O system connecting wireless devices and
adaptors to DCSs,PLCs,and other plant automation systems.

• The gateway has one or more access points that connect wireless devices to
the gateway.

• Access points can be geographically dispersed from the gateway electronics

and in general should be located near the devices to which theyconnect.

• A key consideration is the number of devices that may beconnected.

• Estimate the average bandwidth consumed by a WirelessHART network

Pinch point
Attributes of WirelessHART - Summary

Attributes WirelessHART

Backward Compatibility – with 30 

M installed devices
Designed by and for the Process Industry 
Can be used in Hazardous Areas 
Star & mesh wiring topologies 
Monitoring AND Control Applications 
Security - Built –in, Always On 
Attributes of WirelessHART - Summary

Attributes WirelessHART
International & Industry Standards 
Number of Devices / network > 10,000 
Adaptor to use on existing HART device 
Reliable 
Secure 
Simple 
 Conclusion
• Wired HARTand WirelessHART continue to build on the innovation that
was started in the late 1980s.

Business drivers
• All business performance is based on value that can be generated from its
assets. These assets range from people and materials, to intellectual
content, to physical properties. Plants are becoming much more integrated
with business systems.

 The Wireless HART specification offers many possibilities for wireless

instrumentation for industrial applications. A Wireless HART network
is fully capable of reliable operation in a challenging RF environment.

 HART today is the workhorse of the industry. There is little evidence

to suggest that this will change anytime soon. In this light, the most
recent additions such as discrete devices and burst mode
enhancements continue to be released for both wired and wireless
technologies. Innovation will continue, and both wired and wireless
devices will be there to serve users.
 Future Trend
 A Wireless HART network is vulnerable to malicious denial-of-service attacks, and if there
is a potential risk of such attacks, the networks should be installed in areas with strict
access control security procedures.

Suggested future work is to evaluate short-term and long-term reliability and stability
performance of a Wireless HART network when deployed in a live production environment.

Fields such as partial cross platform implementation of Wireless HART architecture and
simulation scalability issues are outside the scope of this thesis. Although real time hybrid
simulations for WSNs is a desirable approach, scalability problems are likely to be
encountered.

 Another possibility is to perform simulations in a non real time which will be considered for
the future work. In order to foster further development of a simulation framework for
Wireless HART, a stable, cross platform and preferably an open source implementation of
the Wireless HART Network Manager, the Gateway and a Field Device is necessary. Future
efforts will be dedicated towards the implementation of the Network Manager architecture
and related Wireless HART components.
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